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Fabby · 6 August 2021 17:47

Try creating a new user in the console: It’s your session that is crashing, not the boot so:

Switch to TTY2 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2
Log in there
All the commands that follow are root commands, so precede them with sudo
Execute:
```
useradd kathir2
```
Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.
```
groups kathir
groups kathir2
```
(Where obviously, kathir is your old user and kathir2 is your new one.)
E.G. if kathir is a member of operator and kathir2 isn’t, execute:
```
usermod --append --groups operator kathir2
```
Copy all data files from your old profile into your new one
```
cp --verbose --recursive --preserve=time-stamps /home/kathir/Documents/* /home/kathir2/Documents/
```
If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:
```
rm --recursive /home/kathir/Documents/*
```
repeat for:
- Pictures
- Videos
- Music
- .thunderbird
- .mozilla/firefox/
- Templates, and everything else that is important to you.
- Linux games like Battle of Wesnoth have their game data stored under ~/.local/share/ E.G. ~/.local/share/wesnoth/
After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on:
```
usermod --lock kathir
```
If you would have theming going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / whatever per day and if the same issue crops up again, roll back your last change and thus you’ve now pinpointed the exact setting that made your old user misbehave.
in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.
If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.
From now on, start making backups so you can roll back and never have to do this again: